Fertilizer, seed, and grain distributer.



No. 692,7l5. l Patentedfeb. 4, 1902.

T. c. SARGEANT.

FERTILIZER, SEED, AND GRAIN DISTBIBUTEH.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS CHARLES SARGEANT, OF NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND.

FERTILIZER, SEED, ANDAHGRAIN DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,715, dated February4, 1902. Application filed August 8, 1901. Serial No. 71,354. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS CHARLES SAR- GEANT, a subject of His Majestythe King of Great Britain, residing at Northampton, in

My invention relates to machines for the' distribution of fertilizers,grain, seed, and the like upon the soil, especiallyfor the distributionof sticky substances, the'object .being to provide a machine which shalleffectually feed the material to the spreader Wheel or device and whichfrom such spreader will depost it upon the soil in an effective manner.V

One form of distributer according to my invention is represented in theaccompany-` ing drawings, in which- Figure l is an end elevation of themachine with one wheel removed; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, onan enlarged scale, of the carries an adjustable stop 37, against whichhopper and working parts.

1 is a hopper having a hinged cover 2 and carrying bar 3, the hopperbeing supported by the frame of the vehicle. At the frontof the hopperis a beam 4, to which are attached the shafts 5. The bottomV of thehopper is open, and into it fits, so as to close'it,a drum 6, preferablyof wood,'provided"with end.

flanges 7, which abut against the ends of the hopper.

to a certain ektent a revolvin gend board and aid in the delivery of thematerial. The dru m is carried bya shaft 8 and is rotated throughgearing from a toothed wheel 9, Fig. 1, mount` ed on a stud 10 outsideone of the ends of the hopper and which is driven from the wheel of thevehicle in any manner usual in agricultural machines of this class.

The gearing referred to consists of a pinion 11, attached to the wheel9, which pinion drives a spur-wheel l2, which through a pinion 13 drivesa spur-wheel 14 on a shaft 15, which carries a pinion 16, the latterdriving a spur-'wheel 17 on the drum-shaft 8. The rear side of thehopper consists of a board or plate 19, Fig. 2, which carries a bracket20 inside it at each end, such bracket being suspended from a shaft 2l,to which is pivotally attached a curved lever 22, the other end ofported by a bracket 30 on the bar 3.

These end ii'anges form an impor- 1 tant feature of the drum, as theyconstitute I which is attached to a shaft 23 passing i" at its end to aconnecting-rod26, the other`V Y end of which is carried by a crank-pin27 on a crank-disk 28 of the shaft 16, which is sup- I-Ience therotation of shaft 16 will give a reciproeating motion to connecting-rod26, a rocking motion to shaft .23, and aslow rising-andfalling movementto the hopper side 19. The lower edge of this side is beveled, as at 31,to allow the contents of the hopper to fall down freely. against aradial hood 32, whichforms with its forward edge a gate for controllingthe passage of the contents of the hopper out of same. This hoodI canswing or rotate upon The side '19 at this end rests a shaft 33 and iscontrolled by a lever 34,

having a set-screw 35, which engages with a slotted quadrant-arm 36. Thequadrant also Of course for the purpose of moving the lever theset-screw 35, must be first loosed. The shaft 33 is carried in bearingssupported by arms 39 and 40, the rearward ends of arms 40 `beingattached to a rocking shaft 41, said ,rocking shaft being carried inbearings 42, attached to the rearward end of bar 3.

To the rocking shaft 4l is attached a quadrant 36, which is providedwith a handle 43, so that upon pulling down this -handle the shaft 4lwill be rocked, and the arms 40 will raise the shaft 33 and hood 32 intothe position shown by dotted lines in Figpl. The shaft 33 also carriesthe spreader, which consists of a number of arms 44, mounted thereon andcapable of revolving inside the hood 32. The rotation of this shaft isaccomplished by means of a sprocket -wheel 45, v`Fig. 2, mounted on themain axle 10a. and driven from wheel 9, the chain 46Ydriving asprocketwheel 47, which operates in turna spurwheel 48,which drives apinion 49 on the shaft 33. Beneath the spreader-wheel is a shield orscraper, which in the form shown consists of a block of wood 50, havinga face curved to the curvature of the spreader and held by IOO plates5l, hungpn pins carried by brackets 53 from the bar 3, a spring 54between an ear of the bracket and the block serving to keep it in lightbut sufficient contact with the drum 6.

In operation the width of the outlet-open ing from the hopper isadjusted by its radial hood or gate 32 by the lever 34, as described,and the material is carried through such opening and is picked up by thespreaderarms 44, carried around beneath the hood and deposited upon theground in the manner indicated in the drawings. It will be noticed thatthis depositing of the material is effected in a dierent way to thatusually adopted where the spreader-wheel in delivering from a hopperalways shoots the material underneath and not over same. 'lhe result ofthis is that the material is rst projected into the air, and is thusliable to be caught by the wind and either partially blown away orunevenly distributed.

By the overshot arrangement adopted the material is carried aroundbeneath the hood and over the axis of the spreader and thrown verticallydownward upon the ground with considerable force, so that it is far lesslikely to be acted upon-by the wind, and a more perfect distribution isthus secured.

The smooth surface of the drum G feeds the material forward veryeffectively, and the reciprocating side 19 prevents the material archingor sticking in the hopper by causing it to be continually shaken down.It will be seen that the spreader-wheel and hood may be turned over bymeans of the handle 41, so as to be out of the way of the hopper side I9when the latter is to be turned over to disclose the interior of thehopper for cleaning purposes, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2.

What I claim is- 1. A distributer comprising a hopper, a drum in thebottom of same, end flanges to said drum forming revolving end boards bywhich the delivery of the material to the spreading deviceis facilitatedand a radiallyarranged hood forming an adjustable gate for the hopper;substantially as described.

2. The combination with a hopper, a drum forming the bottom of saine, aradially-arranged hood forming an adj ust-able gate for the hopper and arotating spreader beneath said hood.

3. A distributer comprising ahopper, asuspended side, means for swingingsame outwardly for cleaning, a lever connected with said side, means forvibrating said level', a spreading device, and a hood for same againstwhich the lower edge of the side rests.

4. The combination with a hopper and feeding drum of a spreader, a hoodaround said spreader, means for carrying the hood and adj listing itsposition with respect to the hopper to which it acts as a gate, andmeans for moving the spreader and hood outwardly so that they can beturned out of the way.

5. In combination, a rocking shaft, a spreader-wheel, an arm 39supporting said spreader-wheel, an arm 40 carried by said rocking shaftand supporting said arm 39, a hood capable of rotation on the axis ofthe spreader, a lever carried by said hood, a quadrant-arm secured tosaid rocking shaft and means carried by same for adjusting the positionof the lever, such quadrant -arm when pulled serving to turn the rockingshaft and operate said spreader and hood.

6. In a distributer, the combination with the hopper and feeding device,of a hood located adjacent the discharge-opening of said hopper, and arotating spreader mounted below said hood and coperating therewith forconveying the discharged contents of the hopper around said hood andforcibly throwing said contents vertically to the ground.

7. In a distributor, the combination with the hopper, of a feedingdevice comprisinga rotatable drum forming the bottom of said hopper, ahood located adjacent the discharge-opening of said hopper, a rotaryspreader mounted below said hood and rotating in the same direction assaid rotatable drum, and cooperating with said hood for conveying andforcibly throwing the contents of said hopper to the ground.

8. In combination a hopper, a rotating feeding-drum, a rotatingspreader, a radial hood around saine, and a shield or scraper beneathsuch spreader and means for holding same lightly up to the drum.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

THOMAS CHARLES SARGEAN'I.

Witnesses:

A. M. TROUP, W. MAY.

